Word: hispanos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like all Fords, the big new plane is all-metal. Its wings spread no ft. From snout-like nose to ear-shaped rudder it measures 80 ft., the fuselage suggesting somewhat the flying-fish appearance of the Curtiss Condor. Inside each wing is built a 715-hp. Hispano-Suiza engine. The third engine, of 1,100 hp., is mounted atop the centre. Four passenger compartments are furnished with two standard Pullman sections each. A smoking compartment could accommodate additional passengers. There are two lavatories, a galley with gas stove...
...equipped with push buttons for books, chromatic lights, music from one of his eight radios. Bill Paley lived there a while, then moved into a conventional bedroom. He was too active, too aggressive to enjoy lying in fancy beds. But he has a radio in his Hispano-Suiza, always keeps one going at home...
...from Paris' Le Bourget Field, into the dawn one day last week flew a great Dewoitine monoplane built for Perfumer François Coty. Its long, tapered wings stretched out 95 ft. Its Hispano Suiza engine roared with 650 h. p. Its narrow fuselage bore the legend Trait d'Union ("Hyphen"). In the cabin were short, squint-eyed Joseph Marie Lebrix, onetime flying partner (now enemy) of Dieudonné Coste; famed Aerobat Marcel Doret, and Mechanic René Mesnin. They were bound nonstop for Tokyo, 6,032 mi. away, farther than any plane had flown in a straight...
...Ford freight plane, powered by a single 600-h. p. water-cooled Hispano-Suiza engine. Except for the long snout-like motor and four-bladed propeller, the ship bears many outward resemblances to the tri-motored Ford transport...
Spain manufactures a few hundred ultrasmart Hispano-Suizas; all her other cars are imported, most of them from the U. S. Last June Prime Minister Berenguer and Minister de Viguri noted that Spain had an adverse trade balance of $91,000,000. They promptly slapped a whopping tariff on all cars. Spain's motor imports promptly evaporated...